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Robert Young Pelton (born July 25, 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta) is an Canadian-American author, journalist and documentary filmmaker. Pelton's journalistic work usually consists of conflict reporting and interviews with military and political figures in warzones. His career is notable because of the number of conflict zones he has reported from and the breadth of important figures he has interviewed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Colouring Outside The Lines: Talking With Filmmaker Robert Young Pelton )〕 His reputation is built on his history of entering forbidden, deadly and violent places.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Robert Young Pelton: The World's Most Dangerous Places )〕 Pelton has been present at conflicts such as the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan, the Battle of Grozny (1999-2000)〔(【引用サイトリンク】Robert Young Pelton reporting during the siege of Grozny )〕 in Chechnya, the rebel campaign to take Monrovia in Liberia, the siege on Villa Somalia in Mogadishu and has been with ground forces in approximately 40 other conflicts. He survived an assassination attempt in Uganda, spent time with the Taliban and the Northern Alliance〔(【引用サイトリンク】Robert Young Pelton on Fox News – America Strikes Back )〕 pre 9/11, the CIA during the hunt for Bin Laden〔(【引用サイトリンク】Robert Young Pelton on Fox News – Bin Laden Bounty )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】Robert Young Pelton discusses Afghanistan on Extra )〕 and also with both insurgents and Blackwater security contractors during the war in Iraq〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Bin Laden Hunt Hurt by U.S. Disrespect of Afghans, Experts Say )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Congress Investigates Private Military Contracts in Iraq )〕 Pelton's regularly published survival and political guide ''The World's Most Dangerous Places'', provides practical and survival information for people who work and travel in high risk zones, and is a bestseller. With the book's bestseller status Pelton has become an expert on work and travel in "high-risk" environments. He was also host of the Discovery Travel Channel series Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places from 1998 to 2003. Now residing in Los Angeles, Pelton currently writes books, produces documentaries on conflict-related subjects and operates Cultural Engagement Journeys into the World's Most Dangerous and forbidden places.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Robert Young Pelton discusses travelling in 'Dangerous Countries' on CNN )〕 Pelton is also a frequent television and magazine interview subject, often appearing as a raconteur of his various adventures and safety tips on shows as diverse as Oprah, Conan O'Brien, CNN, Fox, BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and others. Pelton is a regular commentator for Shepard Smith's on Fox News, providing insight and background on breaking news. ==Bio== Pelton was born July 25, 1955, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. At age ten, he became the seventh youngest student ever to attend Saint John's Cathedral Boys' School a school in Selkirk, Manitoba. Pelton claims to have been a lumberjack, boundary cutter, tunneler, driller and blaster's assistant before getting his first job as a copywriter when he was 17 in Toronto, working for the ad agency BBDO, having originally been working in the mailroom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Robert Young Pelton's Come Back Alive )〕 He moved to the United States where he worked for various multimedia companies that did product launches like working directly with Steve Jobs with the Lisa launch and Macintosh launch. In his mid thirties he retired from the business world and focused his time on understanding conflict. Pelton quickly made a name for himself traveling and reporting from the dirty wars, rebel camps and war zones.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Mercenaries or 'contractors'? Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton )〕 He got his break as a writer while reporting on the Camel Trophy, an annual event in which teams from around the world competed by overcoming some of the world's most hostile natural environments in Land Rovers. He was with the U.S. team and published his account in Soldier of Fortune.〔 He licensed databased travel content to companies like Microsoft and IBM, selling his businesses to turn full-time to conflict coverage in the mid 90's. He began with a two book deal from Random House (The Adventurist and Come Back Alive), a television series from Discovery called Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places and a major web event with ABC News called Dangerous Places. While in Uganda he missed a bomb assassination attempt against him by the ADF, an Islamic group, by 10 minutes at the Kampala Speke Hotel. In January 2003, Pelton was assigned by Discovery and National Geographic to do a television special and article on the Darien Gap. Pelton and two 22-year-old travelers were ambushed, killing one Kuna Indian and injuring one other. The group was then kidnapped and marched at gunpoint through the Darien Gap by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) and across the 90-mile jungle trail over the 10 days before being released. When AUC leader Carlos Castaño finally learned of the identity of the hostages, he ordered Pelton and his companions released and issued a press release to Reuters stating that they were being held for their safety. Castaño had remembered Pelton's name from a meeting they'd arranged years before, and put in the order for the hostage's release. Pelton contributed to ''National Geographic Adventure'' as both a Contributing Editor and a long running Columnist from January 2001 to 2007. In December 2007 he released his article on Blackwater Worldwide. He was involved in negotiations with the President of Equatorial Guinea regarding the early release of coup plotters, Nick du Toit who had worked for Executive Outcomes in the mid-1990s. The story behind the coup and his efforts to free Nick du Toit and Simon Mann are documented in the May 2008 ''Men's Journal'' article "How to Stage a Coup". In December 2008, Pelton travelled the Horn of Africa with pirates and with an anti-piracy crew researching the piracy and anti-piracy industry. In January 2009, Pelton resumed immersion style coverage by going inside the Army's controversial Human Terrain System.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Afghanistan: The New War for Hearts and Minds )〕 According to 2009 radio, TV interviews and newspaper articles, Pelton spent a year in an advisory position to the commander of ISAF and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) in Afghanistan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Young Pelton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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